GlobalSource Partners’ Brazil Country Analyst Maria Cristina Pinotti serves in conjunction with Affonso Pastore. She is a senior economist and consultant and has been a partner with A.C.Pastore & Associados since 1994.

She previously served as chief economist at DIVESP (Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários de São Paulo), worked as an economist and consultant at Mendonça de Barros e Associados, and was a macroeconomic analyst at Banco de Investimentos do Brasil – BIB/UNIBANCO.

Ms. Pinotti has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas/SP and concluded the doctoral course in economics at University of São Paulo (ABD).She is co-author of many articles as well as chapters in books on the Brazilian economy.